Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers... 2 Peter 3:3
"In late 2022, streaming-giant Netflix released an eight-part 
documentary series titled Ancient Apocalypse,
featuring investigative journalist Graham Hancock. Reportedly, the show
garnered 25 million viewing hours in just a week and soared to
Netflix’s top 10 list in 31 countries.
Throughout the series, Hancock
visits a variety of ancient sites in an attempt to prove his view that
an advanced human civilization existed before the so-called “last ice
age” and was wiped out by a massive flood over 12,000 years ago. The few
survivors then traveled the world, spreading the knowledge of
architecture, math, astronomy, and agriculture to hunter-gatherer
societies.
While rejecting much of mainstream archaeology’s interpretations and
assumptions about the rise of civilization, Hancock still accepts long
ages and many conventional geological and anthropological time frames.
He rejects the Bible’s
history in episode one, lumping the Biblical account of Noah’s flood in
with ancient flood myths. Because he has the wrong starting point, he,
like mainstream archaeologists, comes to the wrong conclusions.
---According to the only eyewitness testimony of all of history, God created life and the universe around 6,000 years ago, including two 
people who were intelligent (made in the image of God)
right from the very beginning. They didn’t stumble around dumbly for
millennia trying to figure out weapons, tools, farming, and fire.
Rather, they were created with intelligence, and within just a few
generations from the first man, Adam, “early” man was raising
domesticated livestock, making and playing musical instruments, and
working with bronze and iron. Genesis 4:17 even mentions building cities just one generation after Adam. In other words, civilization is nearly as old as human history.
God judged their sin with a worldwide flood around 4,350 years ago (not
the massive, localized flooding Hancock believes took place) which destroyed every living air-breathing animal and person
not saved onboard Noah’s ark. Human civilization was utterly destroyed,
and no remains of whatever had been built or invented in the pre-flood
world before Noah and his family entered the ark has ever been (or
likely will ever be) found.
---Soon afterward, the conditions created by the flood (warm oceans
from
volcanic and tectonic activity and cool continents from ash and
particles in the atmosphere reflecting sunlight) caused an ice age,
burying one-third of earth beneath monstrous glaciers. This event
dramatically lowered global sea levels, exposing land bridges between
continents and islands and opening up coastlines for settlement. Several
hundred years later, the glaciers retreated, water poured back into the
oceans, and sea levels rose, engulfing seaside settlements and
swallowing land bridges.
But because Hancock accepts much of the evolutionary narrative, he also
fails to properly understand our anthropology. He gets some things
right: flood legends around the world exist and must be explained
somehow (though he explains them wrongly), human civilization can’t
spring from nothing, and mankind’s history does appear to be more
complex than perhaps many archaeologists believe.
---Keep in mind that it appears that Noah’s sons and grandsons were deified
by their later descendants, which might explain the “demigod” status
given to many of these “civilizing heroes” in the legends. This
deification was likely the result of the long (hundreds of years)
lifespans of the first generations after the flood, that steeply drop
off so that early ancestors outlived their great-grandchildren. It would
seem they “lived forever,” and this illusion, perhaps combined with
their advanced knowledge, gave rise to these demigod, civilizing hero
myths.
Could these serpents be a memory of the serpent that tempted and deceived Eve into sin
in the garden of Eden? Perhaps! In fact, there has never been a greater
cataclysm than the fall of man, deceptively influenced by the serpent
in Eden.
Throughout Ancient Apocalypse, Hancock regularly attempts to
place dates on the various archaeological sites he visits. Sometimes
these dates are the conventional dates assigned by secular
archaeologists. Other times, they are wildly different and are often
reached based on archeoastronomy.
Archeoastronomy, the “astronomy of the ancients,” is a discipline that, in Ancient Apocalypse,
attempts to map out the location of stars in the past and relate that
to how the ancients may have built or oriented their buildings.
For example, in episode three, Hancock demonstrates that if you turn
the sky backward, starting at 9000 BC and going forward, the megalithic
temples in Malta, which are all oriented slightly differently, all
eventually (over millennia) align to the brightest star in their night
sky—Sirius. He uses this as evidence for his preferred dates for these
sites.
Q: What’s the problem?
A: Well, archeoastronomy is not without its
problems, not the least of which is that it is a computer model. And, as
with all computer models, the parameters and data the researchers feed
the model influence the results. Wrong assumptions—such as the use of a
9000 BC initial date and assumption that the orientation of these
temples must be due to some astronomical phenomenon, despite the
lack of evidence at the sites that such is the case—fed into the program
result in wrong conclusions and wrong dates.
Don’t let titles like “Once There Was a Flood” (the name of episode one)
deceive you into thinking Hancock is espousing even a semi-Biblical
worldview.....Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse uses a lot of catastrophic,
almost-worldwide-devastation language that, to many Christians, may
sound reminiscent of the Biblical flood of Noah’s day and may make some
want to think of him as “in our camp” (or at least closer to it). But
Hancock doesn’t think there was a worldwide flood like the one the Bible describes." AIG
